"So what I'm gonna do is piss and moan like an impotent jerk, and then bend over and take it up the tailpipe!" — users of proprietary OSs who don't have the self-respect to switch to Linux
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Yeah, I've seen the same song and dance for the last 20 years. At this point I just shrug whenever I hear Windows users complain about their shitty OS.
Using a "shitty" OS is forgiveable. Using an actively hostile OS, one that acts in the corporation's interest at the expense of the user's, is incomprehensibly insane and beyond the pale.
Android users “i play both sides so I come out on the bottom”
Android: It's based on Linux, except it replaces any and all of the things that make Linux worth using, with Google, and runs it on hardware so proprietary, closed, encrypted and nefarious nothing the OS does can be plausibly trusted anyway.
I'm the neighborhood FOSS guy and I can feel my influence leeching into the area. Hopefully.
I actually wouldn't mind AI in everything, if there was a simple one switch so I could easily turn it off if I don't want to use it. The problem is only in forcing it into peoples faces.
I guess they poured to much money into AI for it to fail, and now they must force people to use it to in order to justify the investments.
If it was a good product, people would ask for more themselves.
Can't wait for windows recall to leverage AI to automatically report you to police because of things you've done on your computer or some other dystopian shit.
Dude... what the fuck? This is Reddit type of response. We don't do that here.
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Just got the instructions I'm to learn about how to put AI into my programs at work. So thrilled.
During a meeting not too long ago someone was like "we're looking into using AI to generate these reports."
So they have a dude who gets requests to generate reports. It's not the same reports, but rather custom reports from scattered bits of data throughout a huge database. Ergo you can't really create a program to extract these reports on demand, a person actually has to sit and piece these together.
Now they want to use LLMs to alleviate him, as this isn't technically his role.
They scoffed at me when I asked about how important it is that these reports are accurate, but I mean, it's a valid concern. Best case you get sometimes-hallucinated reports, worst case you get something that wreaks havoc on the database because it just spits out garbage SQL.
I'm very glad that my role doesn't involve that BS.
I was taking the CCNA course then tests in 2013. I remember how they were pushing their IoT prediction in the courses so hard.
IoT ended up cringe af. To control your vacuum cleaner, it needs to connect to a remote API server hosted in AWS then back to you sitting next to the vacuum cleaner. I could say at the time nobody wants that shit. Now I hate it even more and I skip all the smart products.
I have a similar feeling about LLMs now. They are nice, they solve some problems nicely, they are far from perfect, I dont want them shoved everywhere.
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Into everything
FTFY
Is this some kind of windows joke I'm too GPL to understand?